The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

XOXO Festival co-founder Andy Baio unveiled his newest project on Tuesday : a new platform for virtual events called Skittish. You attend events as an adorable animal avatar, and explore the worlds created for you by clicking around with your mouse or navigating with the WASD keys on your keyboard like you might in a video game.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Pinterest employees are staging a virtual walkout today to protest discrimination and retaliation at the company. The petition encourages employees to overlay their Slack avatar with the faces of the three women. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images. But internally, support has been more measured.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Another honoree, HeyGen , launched a streaming avatar that enhances real-time interactions, creating more useful chatbots and tutors. take advantage of our heightened connectivity, more and more companies (currently about 2,000) have become mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

WellSaid came out of the Allen Institute for AI incubator in 2019 , and its goal was to make synthetic voices that didn’t sound so robotic for common business purposes like training and marketing content. It achieved that first by basing its solution on Tacotron, a speech engine developed by Google and academic researchers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. It is a must download!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. To round out the new product suite, MeetKai is launching MeetKai Cloud AI, which allows developers to plug a cloud-driven voice assistant into an existing virtual environment.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. A companion desktop app lets you beam a live feed of your computer screen over your virtual table space.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download!

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

HTC has announced a new set of trackers for its Vive virtual reality headsets, including one that captures facial expressions and mouth movements. It uses two cameras and an infrared illuminator to record lip, cheek, and jaw movements and then translates that into virtual facial expressions.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

As planners all over the world move their events online or to a hybrid format, the use of virtual event platforms continues to grow. These platforms can help event planners and organizers market and host a virtual event, like a conference or a trade show, that delivers the same quality and value as a live event.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

As planners all over the world move their events online or to a hybrid format, the use of virtual event platforms continues to grow. These platforms can help event planners and organizers market and host a virtual event, like a conference or a trade show, that delivers the same quality and value as a live event.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Exclusive concert by British band Coldplay pulls back the curtain on a new virtual world.”. Two days before the opening of the IAA Mobility international motor show taking place in Munich on 7 – 12 September 2021, BMW is unveiling its own, globally unique virtual world: JOYTOPIA. Okay, fine! Really soak them up. What’s that, Christoph?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. Andreessen Horowitz led the company’s recent $56 million raise into the company that is building dynamic, animated game avatars for virtual worlds, Ingrid writes. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Vizify :: vizify.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

” It’s worth noting that Soul Machines’ other co-founder, Mark Sagar, has won Academy Awards for his AI engineering efforts creating the characters in the films “Avatar” and “King Kong.” ” Perhaps the skill behind producing such realistic digital humans is why Soul Machines reported a 4.6x

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TechNode

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is an AI application service for “real-time communication, interaction, and establishing emotional connections” with AI virtual characters. Each digital human has its own avatar, nickname, and profile, and users can choose according to their interests and hobbies. It can meet a small part of your social needs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

One way that nonprofits and libraries can reduce their travel carbon footprint are to try out some new tools for virtual meetings. And one of these tools is Second Life , the most prominent online 3D virtual world where users can meet and socialize using voice and text chat for free. read more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

” The “metaverse” is an increasingly used buzzword that references a shared virtual environment, like those provided by large-scale online gaming platforms such as Fortnite, Roblox and others. The company’s announcement hinted that those social features would be designed and built at the “metaverse scale.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

One way that nonprofits and libraries can reduce their carbon footprints from travel is to try out (and adopt) new tools for virtual meetings. One free service is Second Life, the most prominent online 3D virtual world where users can meet and socialize using voice and text chat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. Digital people running on Soul Machines’ dystopian-sounding Humans OS 2.0 can use their hands and will one day be able to use full-body motions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

——————————————————————————- 3DLOOK A retail tech start-up behind the virtual fitting room YourFit. This generative AI voice cloning startup claims to have grown 2.5

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Virtual Tutoring While most LMSs provide the option of both, instructor-led-training as well as module-based training, AI can take this experience further. AI-enabled virtual tutoring tools can facilitate interactions between trainees and tutor-bots by simulating voice conversations or generating holograms or avatars.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Virtual Tutoring While most LMSs provide the option of both, instructor-led-training as well as module-based training, AI can take this experience further. AI-enabled virtual tutoring tools can facilitate interactions between trainees and tutor-bots by simulating voice conversations or generating holograms or avatars.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Virtual Tutoring While most LMSs provide the option of both, instructor-led-training as well as module-based training, AI can take this experience further. AI-enabled virtual tutoring tools can facilitate interactions between trainees and tutor-bots by simulating voice conversations or generating holograms or avatars.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

When I was at The Tech Museum developing and leading the Tech Virtual community, I tried to involve a wide range of staff members in the online exhibit development community, so that we could spread out the interactions and relationships built between amateurs and experts. I've been this community manager and know these problems first-hand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download!

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The projector sits above a 720p camera that captures what the child is doing and sends it to their virtual playmate. Once set up, the child can call a contact by tapping on their avatar on the touchscreen, and the call comes in on the tablet like an Alexa call on an Echo smart display (although this is not an Alexa device).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. Sibley's company has developed virtual world projects for CBS, AOL, the NBA, Reuters, and many others.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Sony Wonder Technology Lab in NYC has an involved Digital Profile system which personalizes every interactive to your name, voice, and image based on an initial registration. Harrah's loyalty card program is an elegant example of virtual-to-real design.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Amazon is building a new large language model akin to OpenAI’s GPT-4 to power its Alexa voice assistant. Almost every aspect of the experience can be customized, from the avatars and their animations to Moemate’s synthetic voices and responses. And so they’re being remade. GPT-4 versus Claude).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Capitalizing on the recent tech boom, AI-powered digital companions and digital twin avatars are rapidly emerging as alternatives to human relationships. avatar chatbot platform Ex-human and ex-head of A.I. A 2024 Harvard study found that 21% of U.S. at Replika, tells Fast Company. The appeal is undeniable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. We've been in and out of touch over the years, but always virtually. This was the first time we met face-to-face!

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